Window fixture



A ril 29, 1924. 1,492,210

C. P. KELLY ET AL W INDOW FIXTURE Filed Aug. 12. 1922 32 Q. 73, 'gm wm/arrow Patented Apr. 2%, W24.

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WINDOVI FT X'IURE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLns P. KELLY and THOMAS J. SHERIDAN, citizensof the United States, residing, respectively, at West Telford Borough,in the county of Montgomery, and at Wilkes-Barre, in the county ofLuzerne, both in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Window Fixtures, of which the following is aspecification.

Principal objects of our invention are to provide a simple, inexpensiveyet ornamental window fixture formed as a unitary shade roller supportand curtain or drapery hanger which will stay put without the aid ofnails, screws or kindred pointed fastenings; to provide a device of thecharacter indicated which will take a flush bearing against the windowframe or cornice and which is so formed that the element which supportsthe curtain or drapery pole will overhang the shade roller supportingelement or bracket; and to provide a device of the character indicatedwhich is constructed from a substantially rectangular blank of sheetmetal having a part struck up to form a shade roller support, and havingbalanced stifiening members in the form of integers springing from theupper marginal wall, whereof one is fashioned to constitute a curtain ordrapery supporting element and whereof the others are formed to overhangthe window frame or cornice and which preferably slip between the walland cornice, the body portion being afiorded a flush bearing against anystyle of window frame or cornice and having its marginal end walls andbottom wallfree from projections.

With such and other objects in view we will now describe the inventionin its preferred embodiment, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, wherein,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a window fixture assemblycontaining our invention. I

Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of left and right or mated fixtures;and- Figs. 4: and 5 are, respectively, sectional and perspective viewsof a modification.

According to our invention we provide a main body portion 5, of sheetmetal,of generally rectangular form, having a frontal projection 6struck up from the face thereof and which constitutes a shade rollerbracket which may have an eye 7 or an open slot 8, as is usual, in orderto facilitate the mounting and retention of the shade roller. springingfrom the upper marginal wall of the fixtures are stiffening members orin tegers comprising end members, and an intermediate member. One of theend members is bent forwardly in the form of an ogee curve toconstitutea hanger 9 to accommodate the usual pole or support for a curtain ordrapery. The other end member 10 and the intermediate member 11 may becounter-parts, and extend vertically in the plane of the main bodyportion and are then bent rearwardly and then downwardly to formretaining lugs 12, which, as indicated in Figure 1, overhang thecornice, and slip between the same and the wall. Fig. 2 illustrates aleft hand fixture and Fig. 3 a right hand fixture. It will be noted thatin each the hanger 9 overhangs the shade roller bracket, and that thereare no end projections or other projections in line with said bracket.

In the modification, Fig. 5, a fixture of the same general type isindicated, which has the further merit that the structure is balanced byspacing the integral suspension elements so that both are substantiallyat the ends of the fixture. This is accomplished by splitting, as at 13,an upward extension of the main body and fashioning the extension toform the curtain or drapery hanger 14, and the suspension element 15 thecomplemental suspension element 16 being thesame as before. Fig. 4 is asectional view of the left hand mate of this structure. in themodification, as in the construction first referred to, the curtainhanging element 14: is above ,the shade roller bracket so that there areno unsightly projections in line with the latter and which wouldmitigate against the convenient assemblage of the parts orwhich wouldmar the appearance thereof.

Evidently, we have provided a simple and ornamental window fixture whichcan be produced at small cost, which may be readily applied and removed,and which is not a hazard to fine lace curtains, hangings, or draperies.

Having described our claim,

A unitary shade roller support and curtain hanger, embodying a mainelongated plateinvention, we

like structure having its bottom and end Walls free from projections andwhich is otherwise free to take a flush bearing, said structure having ashade roller bracket struck up from its body and having integersspringing flatwise from'its upper marginal wall comprising end membersand an intermediate member, one of the end members and the intermediatemember having ter minals Whieh are constructed and arranged 10 tooverlie a WiDCiOW cornice and the other end member terminating in an armor hanger and spaced to one side of and out of alignment With thebracket.

In testimony whereof, We 'afiix our signa- 15 tures. CHARLES P. KELLY.

THOMAS J. SHERIDAN.

